The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)

?The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings.? --The Oregonian

Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father?but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart.
 
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time
An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel
 
?The story gallops with ferocious momentum.? --The New York Times Book Review
?Pullman?s imagination soars. . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you won?t want to miss.? --The Boston Globe
?Destined to become a classic.? --Detroit Free Press
?The Subtle Knife is as absorbing and irresistible as The Golden Compass--and even more so, as powerful forces are set in motion. A brilliantly conceived work.? --Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, and Newbery Medalist for The High King